Precipitate vs Precipitant - What's the difference?
precipitate | precipitant |
To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
* Glover
* Francis Bacon
To throw an object or person from a great height.
* Washington Irving
To send violently into a certain state or condition.
(chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
(chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
(meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
* Washington Irving
A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
(chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.
headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
* Prior
Very steep; precipitous.
With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
Moving with excessive speed or haste.
Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
That falls headlong, or causes a headlong fall
* J. Philips
Rash or impulsive
Sudden or unexpected
(chemistry) That causes precipitation
Precipitant is a related term of precipitate.
In chemistry terms the difference between precipitate and precipitant
is that precipitate is a solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution while precipitant is that causes precipitation.As nouns the difference between precipitate and precipitant
is that precipitate is a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action while precipitant is a substance that forms a precipitate when added to a solution.As adjectives the difference between precipitate and precipitant
is that precipitate is headlong; falling steeply or vertically while precipitant is that falls headlong, or causes a headlong fall.As a verb precipitate
is to make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.precipitate
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(precipitat)- to precipitate a journey, or a conflict
- Back to his sight precipitates her steps.
- If they be daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous.
- She and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled region of the river.
- Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate .
- It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.
- The light vapour of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* precipitated * precipitator * red precipitate * white precipitateEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl)Adjective
(en adjective)- Precipitate the furious torrent flows.
- The king was too precipitate in declaring war.
- a precipitate case of disease
Derived terms
* precipitately * precipitatenessExternal links
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* English heteronyms ----precipitant
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Adjective
(en adjective)- They leave their little lives / Above the clouds, precipitant to earth.